The problem here is that people cannot seem to understand that "private" and "privacy" are related but not the same thing. Private is what happens in my house that nobody outside should be privy to. Privacy is the illusion that everything we do is private. I liken this to being photographed and filmed in public and the Karen's crying "don't video me". No Karen, I can and WILL video you in public and there is nothing you can do to stop me.

One has no expectation of privacy in public. None. Social Media IS public. Everything on the internet is public. Some things offer more privacy than others, but if its on the internet, it can and likely WILL BE exposed.

Act accordingly.

Sure, that's a common usage of the word pledge, but again, it's hardly exclusive. Pledge just don't have the connotation of "charity" in general usage in the United States.

Pretty interesting the Australian English has a very different connotation! Pledge is a common word in the states.

Some American examples of pledge in the public discource:

etc

Microsoft more or less ignored the Internet from 1992-1994....and in June 1992 there were only ten websites. The commercial internet wasn't a thing until July 1995.

You have a weird, fucked-up misconception of history.

Facebook's shitty, Nazi-trained AI bans people for posting links to the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.

Zuckerberg is a shit-eating robotic Nazi and the best thing for the world would be for every one of his companies to instantly go out of business.

Facebook's shitty, Nazi-trained AI bans people for posting links to the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. Zuckerberg is a shit-eating robotic Nazi and the best thing for the world would be for every one of his companies to instantly go out of business.

Gweihir is kind of infamous for refusing to admit that LLMs have any possible usage or that anyone is using them in a productive capacity today. His posts have been becoming increasingly strident of late.

I don't like the term "AGI" because it's still nebulous and means different things to different people. The shifting window of vocabulary meanings in the AI field is rough. In the 1980s people regularly talked about chess as an AI problem. Now you can find plenty of people who say that's not AI. Ditto for Go (once Go became a defeated AI problem, it suddenly is no longer worthy of being considered AI). All the things I learned when I took an AI class ~25 years ago are now often derided as not AI (neural networks, A* and other search trees algorithms, etc).

There's a group of people who want to continue to goal shift until the only goal is "human intelligence" and if it's not human intelligence, it's not AI.

I think the definition of "AGI" = "Ability to learn" anything is close. But, can your average human learn anything? I'm not so sure.

Does it matter if the same AI program can answer math questions (or protein folding, whatever) AND plan a warehouse robot travel route AND summarize legal documents?

For now at least, throwing more people-time, processing time, and processing capacity at these models does seem to make a big difference. I've been playing around with some downloadable models, and this technology is improving so quickly. I can't imagine what it will be like in 2 years or 5 years or 10 years or 20 years.

I would bet on Zuckerberg over Gweihir.

I've seen that. It's pretty fun. I would, unironically, watch that spinoff.

While you can use the word "pledge" to refer to a promised future donation to a charity (see, e.g., "pledge drive"), it's not an exclusive meaning. For native English speakers, I would not say that "pledge" particularly brings up the connotation of charity. Pledge just means to promise or vow something. "I pledge allegiance..." or "I pledge my support for this candidate." Etc.

Bonnie Blue it is!!!!!

Privacy is an illusion at best. Your data is already public. Already exposed.

That nobody cares about you enough to DOX you ... yet isn't "privacy" it is obscurity.

When we look back in 30 years time at what caused America to fall, energy prices, spending too much on nuclear, and failure to compete in renewable energy is my best guess.

"Being run by Inbred Klan Fuckwit Republicans" will be pretty high on the list too.

Battery Storage works fine if you have diversified energy production. Dumb Klanwit Arkansas doesn't, of course, because it's 50th in Education and one of the Klan Garbage States...

Hey, remember when the Retard Fuckwit Pedophile Republicans in Texas woke up the Whole Damn State, all the way from Texarkana to El Paso, because some sheriff got shot up way north of Dallas?

Pepperidge Farm Remembers...

But how will the Retard Pedophile Republicans scare the elderly about supposed "child abduction rings" that don't exist then???

They actually normally DO! That's always been one of the big Slashdot slanders of Apple -- that they're not the first mover, they just copy other people but do it really well. (I don't entirely agree, but that's neither here nor there for this conversation.)

Liquid Glass does give me serious Vista vibes, and so far, I don't get it. I've only tried it on one device so far, so I'm willing to give it a shot, but I'm not incredibly optimistic.